Angel Investor, Customer Development, Founder and Lean

Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley

Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 Build $10-30M funds.

Early Stage

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

CTO Hire

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor

Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor

10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations

The David S. Rose Reading List for High-Growth Startups

Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. ” Lean Business Planning: Get What You Want From Your Business. Why David Rose recommends it: “This guide takes the lean theories and shows you how to put them into practice.”. B y Eric Ries. B y Tim Berry.

Startup

Startup Venture Capital Angel Investor Lean

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital

How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Is Prescriptive – offers founders a “what-you-need-to-do-next” framework to reach a higher level of readiness. Here’s John’s story.

Sacramento

Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean

10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. One of the biggest mistakes I made was flushing about $10,000 down the toilet on legal fees for a piece of paper that eventually didn’t suffice when two of our co-founders left the building.

Netherlands

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Over 10 weeks each team gets out and talks to 100 customers. Those days are over.

Oakland

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder

Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They need to raise money before building anything substantial after determining that they needed a little dough to follow the Lean Startup methodology. They decide to go out and raise money on a convertible note – several angel investors have signaled interest in participating in the note and they don’t feel ready to pitch VCs yet.

Burn Rate

Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage

Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. We also cavalierly lampoon the “suits” that get brought in to run startups after the founders are fired by callous VC’s. And there’s a worse fate, too.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers

Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. The startup accelerator also announced that it will incorporate lean startup methodology as a key aspect in its upcoming program, and will be the first in Europe to do so.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Solve a problem you can relate to.

Software Review

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

Boston

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.&# I was in this situation and we barely escaped.

Cofounder

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Ruby

Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors. Victor Hugo. 1) Structure.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Business Model Early Stage Venture Capital

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

And Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture is a huge help to startup founders. David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. What’s more, as the Lean Startup revolution has gone mainstream, Dave said, it has started to change the trajectory of our economy.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York

Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

The process they use to guide that search is "Customer Development" ; and to track their progress startups now have a scorecard to document their week-by-week changes – the business model canvas. Yet even with all these tools, early stage startups still need to physically meet with advisors and investors.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Startup Early Stage Business Model

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Lean Startup Circle â??

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO

Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? What went wrong?

Technical Review

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire

The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) More on this in the next post.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Once funding takes place, the angels or VCs will want a seat at the table. Whether the Advisory Board is something your investors (or Board of Directors) demand or not, you should set one up anyway. There’s no surprise there. I see the attraction.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Startup Cofounder Equity

What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. Any suggestions?

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

Technical Review

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StartUpRoar

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

The David S. Rose Reading List for High-Growth Startups

Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Startup Tools

Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 2 of 2 – Virtual Valley Ventures

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

Startup Resources

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